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This is one of the phenomena of the situation in Northern Ireland after the peace process. The hard men of the Protestant community continue to hold their parades and riot when they can’t go where they want when they want. It is still a divided society, riddled with organised crime groups. the interesting thing here though, is that a policing problem is now being dealt with by mutual aid ie the “borrowing” of police officers from elsewhere in the UK rather than the Army.

These are the materials from the House of lords European select Committee that relate to the proposed opt-out by the UK from justice and home affairs cooperation prior to opting back into some of the measures. All to do with police cooperation and the Treaty of Lisbon.

Link from a blog to new article by Campana and Varese in Rationality and Society. I’m particularly interested as I have just returned from a workshop on trust and international police cooperation in Onati, the Basque Country